This session is about how you redefine the consumer, content and brand relationship via digital accountability and targeting. After building a new consumer brand via radio, that now reaches audiences of over 5 million listeners monthly in the UK, now it is all about ‘redefining radio’ but this time it’s the business model for Absolute Radio. During this interactive session Clive Dickens, co-founder and COO of Absolute Radio, will share much of what he has learnt from the company´s digital journey to date, including the business strategy around ‘In stream – broadcast one to many – advertising one to one’.Hear how the creation of a new Absolute Radio Account allows consumers to ‘log on & listen ‘ and therefore gives the station the potential redefine the consumer, content & brand relationship via digital accountability & targeting.

To make clever branded content is an art. How do you get advertisers to pay for content without scaring your listeners away? Or even worse - upset them? Branded content is getting more and more popular in international radio and a station which has been extremely successful is Absolute Radio in London. Branded Content Manager Tony Moorey shows how Absolute Radio has made branded content a success and great business.

That the music industry has radically changed in the last decade is a serious understatement. Technology has altered everything from the creation of music to its distribution, upending retailers, studios and business models across the industry.

Six months after launching in the UK, Deezer has announced a range of new features including social media integration with Twitter, Last.fm and Peer Perks, an iPad app update and the introduction of offline mode.

Most radio stations offers streamed radio and many expand their online services. But many broadcasters are struggling to make business out of their online radios. This session looks at what kind of advertisement works for on-line radio and how you can get more revenue out of your Internet business.Elisa Escobedo is CEO of Audioemotion, which handles 70% of all on-line radio advertisement in Spain. She has also initiated an organisation for on-line radios in Spain, AERO, to further vitalize the on-line radio market.

Among the many recent changes at Facebook was the introduction of Interest Lists. Though this may not be the strongest tool in your marketing arsenal, it does have some potential uses that are worth considering for music marketing on Facebook.

Looks like the rumors were all too true -- according to All Things D, Beats Audio is picking up MOG. For those unaware, MOG is yet another music streaming / subscription service, and while the feature set bests even the vaunted Spotify in many ways by including a Pandora-like playlist generator, it's had a tough time procuring the same hype machine. Regardless, there's no more hiding under the radar now, and you can bet that anything with a Beats label on it will soon be using MOG as a musical pillar (hello, HTC Sense?).

Google and Facebook are in a war for user attention on the Web. This is not just about how many eyeballs are on Google+ versus Facebook but also from an end-to-end platform perspective. That includes messaging, application deployment, social graph implementations and content discovery. Like everything else in the world of technology, this battle is going mobile. When it comes down to developing social mobile applications, Google may be doing better than many people think.

No industry is changing as rapid as the music industry. In the past, the record companies fully determined which artists were launched national or international. The production costs, the promotional costs and the distribution costs for an album were significant. The music industry lived for the blockbusters with huge sales from a handful of talents. The core business of a record company was to discover and to launch new talent. In the last ten years, this has all changed. The record companies could not keep up with the rapid developments in the market and lost considerable ground to newcomers.

Pew Internet & American Life Project Associate Director for Research Kristen Purcell (@kristenpurcell) shares Pew Internet (@pewinternet) data on the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., focusing on information consumption patterns.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.

Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
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